Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BW, UK.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2012 Dec 10;371(1983):20120094. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0094. Print 2013 Jan 28.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the greatest scientific endeavours to date. The construction of the collider itself and the experiments that collect data from it represent a huge investment, both financially and in terms of human effort, in our hope to understand the way the Universe works at a deeper level. Yet the volumes of data produced are so large that they cannot be analysed at any single computing centre. Instead, the experiments have all adopted distributed computing models based on the LHC Computing Grid. Without the correct functioning of this grid infrastructure the experiments would not be able to understand the data that they have collected. Within the UK, the Grid infrastructure needed by the experiments is provided by the GridPP project. We report on the operations, performance and contributions made to the experiments by the GridPP project during the years of 2010 and 2011--the first two significant years of the running of the LHC.
大型强子对撞机(LHC)是迄今为止最伟大的科学事业之一。对撞机本身的建造以及从其中收集数据的实验代表了我们在更深层次上理解宇宙运作方式的巨大投入,无论是在财务方面还是在人力方面。然而,产生的数据量如此之大,以至于单个计算中心无法对其进行分析。相反,实验都采用了基于 LHC 计算网格的分布式计算模型。如果没有正确运行该网格基础设施,实验将无法理解他们所收集的数据。在英国,实验所需的网格基础设施由 GridPP 项目提供。我们报告了 GridPP 项目在 2010 年和 2011 年——即 LHC 运行的头两年——期间的运营、性能和对实验的贡献。